I wanted to note three thoughts following Apple’s big announcements today:

The sub-$500 Mac mini

Apple has once again crossed a major threshold and introduced a Mac that starts at under $500. The Mac mini is the perfect second Mac, a great media server or iOS device companion, a good cheap Mac if all you need to do is a little word processing. It’s also the Mac to get if you simply want to test Apple’s ecosystem — and will be the computer many more aspirational Mac users choose while struggling through the battered macroeconomic situation.

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